29 responses on “Matt Mullenweg: State of the Word 2011”

A big thanks to Matt Mullenweg for that short historic journey through the life of brilliant word press platform. I enjoyed Matts talk that much I have listened to it 3 times. A bit sad I know but you cant help thinking about how much less content there would be out there on the internet If it wasn’t the brilliant Word Press guys.
So A Big Thank you to every one at Word Press :¬).

Howdy Grant. :) I think you may have misheard, it’s right around 4:30, I’m highlighting that PressWork is new, not that it was the first to do anything. If I were to guess at the first drag-and-drop in the WP world it’d probably be Canvas from 2006, but in general I find it's much more interesting to look at what people are doing instead of when they started doing it. (WordPress was not even close to being the first blogging system. :))

I watched the whole thing. Pretty amazing how much WordPress is growing and the adoption rate is getting higher. I’m doing less than 25 blogs. I should really catch up! Thank you Matt and the WordPress team.

Great work Matt! I just made this year my transition from printing desktop publisher to website publishing and i have Found in WordPress a platform that i can relay on! Thank you for your work and the work of your team!

For some reason I could not watch this on my Android 2.2 phone. It’s capable of showing HTML5 video. Anyway, great stuff! I really like the changes in plugin policy. I would like to see it go a step further and hide plugins that aren’t updated or certified to work for your specific version. Just a thought.
Thanks for making WP what it is and what it will be!

Really great presentation. This year I have been exploring the limits of wordpress and really pushing its capabilities in the Automotive world and Public company business. I am really excited… as the adaptibility improves as it will present new solutions and for a confused world.

I follow Matt on twitter and have great respect for providing the blogging word in clear concise formats as WordPress does and l was sorry l could not attend the ” State of The Word” conference but keep up the good work Matt and all your team.

I have a question I am really hoping Matt will answer, it’s something that has been raised a lot recently with friends who I maintain blogs for. Recently a lot of the people I host and maintain blogs for have come to me with the idea that they might take their blog across to Tumblr, not for any reason except that it just feels easier to post with. They like that they can look at something and just start a post, it does some funky content detection and stuff like this. Is WordPress considering ways in which to make it easier to post content?

Hi Matt, any objections if I publish a transcript of your State of the Word 2011 speech? I’ve been searching for one online but been unable to find anything so was thinking to publish one so others could benefit from it too. Naturally it would be attributed to you of course. Cheers, Nick